{"id":2917,"date":"2022-08-15T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.wordpress.com\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2022-05-26T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T15:49:56","slug":"fresh-look-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/15\/fresh-look-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Look: Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fresh Look &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Is a series of articles taking a look at common topics to try to come up with some new ideas and insight into problems that seem to repeat themselves across many organisations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2898\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2898\" src=\"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mountain-climbers-alaska_2723-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mountain-climbers-alaska_2723-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mountain-climbers-alaska_2723.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alaska. Denali NP. Scott Sumpter and Todd Shenk ascend a 10,000&#8242; peak. MR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a world of information overload it is very easy to lose&nbsp; sight of what matters, so this is the first in a series of posts that revisit to remind about some core&nbsp; concepts so what could be more important than planning<br \/>\nOne of the great mysteries of our profession is planning. For most of our clients, project and programme management is all about&nbsp; having a plan, and yet most of our&nbsp; professional qualifications don&#8217;t actually involve much planning, in fact some of them go out of their way to avoid it like PRINCE2.<br \/>\nSo we shouldn&#8217;t really be surprised that so many projects run late or go wrong. There is a sequence to events that are needed to bring a good plan together.&nbsp; In this article we have set out this sequence for you to consider &#8211;&nbsp;<a title=\"Planning - back to basics\" href=\"http:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/documents\/Planning%20-%20back%20to%20basics%20v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Planning &#8211; back to basics&nbsp;<\/a><br \/>\nNow, if you are really interested in finding out more about planning and how you can improve your performance, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalbestpractice.com\/?DI=645805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalbestpractice.com\/?DI=645805\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/planning-guide-banner.jpg\" alt=\"Planning guide banner\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/planning-guide-banner.jpg 500w, https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/planning-guide-banner-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh Look &#8211;&nbsp;Is a series of articles taking a look at common topics to try to come up with some new ideas and insight into problems that seem to repeat themselves across many organisations. In a world of information overload it is very easy to lose&nbsp; sight of what matters, so this is the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireeurope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}